— 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀；𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆
— 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖾𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍：𝗌𝖾𝗍𝗍𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗅𝖺𝗆𝖾

𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀
𝖡𝗒：𝖯𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗍𝗈𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗆
" 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴，𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥．𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴， 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦．"

GETTING BACK ON HIS FEET, Viktor regained his strength back. He never thought that he would ever see Gemini's bad side, but things had now changed – drastically.

"Well, congratulations, Viktor. You managed to destroy everything. Again." Luther scuffed as he walked away.

"I really thought you were smarter than that." Five sadly said.

Viktor looked solemnly at the remainder of his family then set foot in route towards Harlan.

"Well... That went great!" Klaus exclaimed, hopping down from the bar's table.

Walking over, Five took a seat beside his brother.

Grabbing four shot glasses, Klaus placed each of them in front of the remaining people still at the bar which consisted of Gemini, Cleo and Five.

"Thanks." the trio silently welcomed as their shots began to be poured.

"I saw my future self die." Five blurted out. Though it was obvious to the other two sparrows in the room, who Five was talking to.

Klaus gasped, "That's crazy. Almost the exact same thing happened to me. But I didn't die, but I did, but I don't know."

"He told me not to save the world. And then he died."

The two spoke at the same time.

Cleo tried to decipher what the two were saying but she just gave up in the end. And while Cleo was trying to decipher what the two umbrella's were saying Gemini rolled her eyes and took another sip of her drink.

"What do you think he meant by that?" Five asked his brother.

"Well, shouldn't you know?" Klaus concluded.

"Shouldn't you know about your – okay." Five also concluded.

"Well, up your ass."

"Salute." Five cheered, but soon his facial expression changed where he heard his brother's monologue.

"Klaus I've dedicated my entire life to stopping the apocalypse. Apocalypses plural, and he tells me... that it's, what? It's meaningless?"

"Oh, well, I don't know anything–" Klaus tried to say, but Five ended up talking to himself more.

"Maybe that's his way of saying not to become him, but..."

"Oh, you're really messed up about this, huh?" Klaus genuinely asked.

"I've cheated time so much, I guess I just figured I'd somehow cheat death. But it turns out, I die a one–armed nightmare inside a bureaucratic hellscape of my own design."

"Spoiler alert!" Klaus joked, trying to lighten his brother's glum mood.

"Not to mention the trashy tattoo." Five stated, as he reached into his inner jacket pocket to pull out a flap of his elder selfs skin.

"Ugh!" Klaus reacted.

"I knew you would pull some weird shit like that if we left you in that room alone with yourself, at least I can now say I've never ever been wrong about you." Cleo interjected.

"Is this your skin?" Klaus asked, wanting his brother's answer, as he poked at it.

Five simultaneously nodded. "I'll be damned if I go out with an oldman tramp stamp."

"I don't know Five, I think it suits you very well." Cleo shared.

"Then I definitely won't be getting it if you think it suits me." He shot back with a sarcastic smile.

"Hey, if you don't want to end up like this guy, then why don't you do something completely different? Completely different– Move upstate, become an alpaca farmer." Klaus suggested.

"Yeah, I could. The timeline's malleable. We've proven that much."

"This timeline suck arse." Gemini spontaneously said out of the blue.

Five shrugged towards her comment. "I could try and break the cycle, but–"

"Yeah, sure. Just keep your arms and extremities away from sharp objects, and don't join the Mothers of Agony." Klaus informed.

"Ah, I don't know about that one Klaus. I think Five should be close to sharp objects, because pain builds character." Cleo mentioned.  Making the lanky brother chuckle.

"Wait, what did you say?" Five questioned.

"About what?"

"About the tattoo."

"Oh yeah, the tattoo is a symbol of a biker gang, the Mothers of Agony." Klaus explained.

"You know them?"

"Like two timelines ago, they were... How do I put it? My Farmacistas."

"Thank you, Klaus." Five said as he stood up and turned around to look at the two sparrows.

"Now, I know I'm going to regret this but I need you and Gemini to come with me." Five asked, rather unsurely.

"Why though, I mean we dislike each other, so why would I let alone Gemini help you?" Cleo questioned.

"Your powers could actually come in handy." Five stated vaguely.

"Hmm, I don't know. Gemini, what do you think?" Cleo asked, as she turned to her brunette haired double.

"I think I want you to stop saying my name, it's meaningless to hear since the person who gave me it is dead. But if you want my honest opinion on what to do in this situation, I say you go with Five and try to get along while you leave me here in the hotel." She said getting up from her seat.

"If you need me, I'll be in our hotel room." Gemini moped  walking towards the elevator.

Cleo looked unsure, thinking it wasn't a good idea to leave her alone at this time. But she knew from past experiences that Gemini needed her space to be said so she agreed with herself, then turned to Five.

"Well, I guess it's just you and me now." She huffed.

"Great." He muttered and took a hold of her arm, then teleported out of the hotel.

☂︎︎

Gemini made her way up to the hotel room she purchased and decided it was a great time to take a nap, but little did she know the dreams she was about to have were going to turn into a living nightmare.

Waking up in a cold sweat, looking to her right she saw an alarm clock showing that only 20 minutes had passed by.

Shaking her head she sat up in the bed, seeing movement in the far corner of the room.

She glanced over to see her dead sister sitting in the chair across from her.

Jayme shook her head at her. "You know it's a real shame."

"What's a real shame?" Gemini asked, looking at a half burned corpse.

"That you're laying down mopping while there is a freaking kugelblitz happening outside, and you're not doing anything about it."

"But then again, I would mope too if I were the cause of my siblings death." Ghost Jayme added, as her burned lips turned upwards into a sly smirk.

"What did you just say?" Gemini asked, squinting her eyes.

"You heard me loud and clear, Gem. You're the reason that me and Alphonso are dead." She repeated.

"Yeah, I mean what kinda sibling are you? The minute those umbrella's showed up you ditched us for them." Alphonso said, as he also appeared in the room sitting on the opposite side of Jayme in the vacant chair.

"You don't know what you're saying." Gemini whispered, more so to herself as she tried to cover her ears.

"Oh no, you're not getting out of this one Gem, it's time to face the consequences of your own actions.

"No, no, you don't understand. I wasn't trying to abandon you guys at all, I was just trying to figure out why Dad did the things he did. And then we got swooped up in the bloody kugelblitz thing. I didn't mean to get you guys hurt." She pleaded with tears filling her eyes.

"What does it matter what Reginald does, you know the man is bat shit crazy." Alphonso spoke.

"You are right, he is crazy. But they all looked so hurt to see us replace them." She tried to reconcile.

"We didn't replace them Gemini, that's just what they want you to say." Jayme huffed.

"You don't know that, you haven't been around them long enough to know that." She disagreed.

"Are you calling me a liar now?" Jayme asked, tilting her head to the side.

"I would never call you a liar Jayme, I'm just saying you don't have all of the facts."

Jayme turned to Alphonso letting their empty eye sockets meet. "I don't know Al, I think she is calling me a liar, my own sister is calling me a liar." she hummed, shaking her head in disappointment.

"I think she deserves to be punished, I mean why should she get to live the good life if she's wallowing now. She's not really important anymore, I mean she abandoned her own family for christ sakes." Alphonso suggested.

Gemini curled up into a tight ball on the bed rocking herself back and forth muttering to herself, "They're not real you're just hallucinating, it's just a dream wake up."

She kept on repeating the same mantra to herself. Hoping they would go away.

"If you wanted to hallucinate all you had to do was ask." Jayme slyly said.

Making Gemini look up at her with confusion, but that confusion soon turned into fear once she saw the venomous veins crawling up Jayme's burnt jaws.

"No, I'm sorry. Please don't do this, it's my fault you're right, it's my fault. I am to blame." She begged, but it was too late.

The last thing she saw was Jayme's venom fly straight towards her face.

Screaming Gemini shot up in her bed, looking around the room she didn't spot a single soul.

Looking to her right, the alarm clock showed her that at least 2 hours had now passed.

Gazing back around the room she saw all of the covers on the floor. Not realizing it yet till she lifted up her hand towards her face she saw that she was shaking rapidly.

"It was just a dream." She tried to reassure herself.

But even if it was all a dream, the guilt she was feeling was real.

And right now that was enough to tear her apart.

Sitting in silence she just rocked herself back and forth, muttering to herself. "It was all a dream."

A dream that left her completely terrified to fall asleep ever again.

At this point she was hoping the kugelblitz would come and take her away so she didn't have to deal with anything anymore, but that was just wishful thinking because when has she ever been that lucky.

☂︎︎

Five and Cleo finally arrived outside of the bikers pub.

Walking up to the entrance, Cleo could feel something off with herself, but she knew it wasn't actually herself. Instead she was feeling Gemini's pain and it was strong.

Knowing she had to hurry up and get back to the hotel, she started jogging up to the entrance not wasting any time.

Entering the club, bother her and Five received stares because they were clearly out of place.

Not to mention that Five also looked like a teen who barely hit puberty.

Walking past a stripper, Cleo took a money clip out of her pocket and placed a fifty on the small stage, then continued walking till she and Five both reached a back door.

Going into the back room, Cleo did not expect to see an old friend.

"I've been looking for you." Five said, grabbing his attention.

Pogo turned around to look at the newcomers in his room, he however did not expect to see an old student.

"And here I thought you would have done something better with your life." Cleo said, with a short laugh.

She remembered the day Pogo left the academy, it was the day Jayme had beaten Ben in a fight.

Though it was exhilarating to watch, her and Gemini knew once Jayme had beaten Ben he was going to be quite mad about it.

Which actually ended up happening, Ben stomped off towards the house to pout because Reginald saw his failure.

What Cleo didn't expect was for Pogo and Reginald to get into a fight about their training and leave that very afternoon.

Ever since that day they had started to drug Reginald, and they did it without a conscience.

Leaving her memories behind Cleo now stared at a different Pogo. This one looked rugged and worn.

"I don't tattoo children, and I'm most certainly not tattooing one of my old students." Pogo but it blatantly.

"Swell, we're not here for the ink. We're here because we have a mutual friend. Sir Reginald Hargreeves." Five stated.

"Uh, I don't know what the definition of what a "friend" is to you but Reginald sure isn't one of mine." Cleo corrected.

Pogo lowly chuckled, seeing no change in his older student.

"Whatever he wants, I'm not interested." The chimp answered, turning back around to his client.

"I don't think you understand. I'm one of his children, from another timeline." Five tried to get Pogo to understand.

"I know it sounds like blasphemy Pogs, but it's true." Cleo agreed.

"Another timeline?" He questioned, then chuckled once more.

"As crazy as it sounds, you and I have met before. Back in 1963, when you were a diaper–wearing chimp in dire need of a manicure." Five said, showing the faded scare along his neck to prove it.

"Way to go, baby pogo." Cleo praised.

Five as always ignored Cleo's side comments.

"I don't know if you remember, but I have a scar to prove it."

"If what you're saying is true. I'd be talking to a man well into his sixties. Now if you'll excuse me I've had a very long day." Pogo said, leaving the two enemies standing in place.

"Pogo, you need to listen to us." Five said, trying to convince the fleeting chimp.

Seeing him exit out the back door Cleo called out, "Not even a goodbye to an old student, have you lost your manners old chimp."

But she received not a word in return.

"Time to go home to Mommy, li'l guy. And you young lady can come with us." A random biker said, as the rest started to circle around them.

"How about no." Cleo disagreed, and sent a right hook directly to the guy's jaw, before Five blinked them out.

Appearing outside they saw retrieving Pogo leaving on his bike.

Fortunately for Cleo she stole some guys keys.

Look at the brand name on the motorcycle keychain, she found the motorcycle the keys belong to.

And it wasn't hard because on the side it showed "Big Ollie" which matched the key chain so she took her chances and hopped on the bike and put the keys into the ignition.

Hearing the rumble from underneath her she smiled, starting up the bike she passed by Five who was arguing with a guy for his bike.

"Catch up when you can." She said, with a smirk on her face as she passed him and followed Pogo.

The guy who was on the bike next to her was soon tossed off as she saw Five hop on the bike instead.

"Finally thought you were going to need help." She commented.

"Just shut up and drive." Five replied.

Gemini's going through a lot right now, and it's quite sad.